THE MORAL OF AN EXPERIMENT.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1929, Page 7

THE MORAL OF AN EXPERIMENT.

“The National Health Insurance Inii*.ls may lie likened to the water in a cistern. which supplies a thirsty population of 1 It,>IOO,WX). At jiresent the cistern is fairly full, hut the people outside are demanding; more ami more drinks. One way of dealing with the situation is to educate them to a sense of rcsponsihlitv, to make it

.-leer that there is only a certain amount of water, and that il tin*" do not use it carefully there may not bo eeoo'di later on. (a an loe.n emumunity this caution would he suflieiont hut here in England it is essential to see that water is stricklv withheld Irom those who do not need it. Panel >• 1 it.ioiie’s •>!•(* in the uncnviahle position of being the taps through .1 p- , r,irii sited, and there is not the least doubt that a few of these taps work much too easily so that there is always a crowd around them • ,{-j .* * (|o 1 ) I K»« HI'KS '.'(.'l'Lllicates. The system is faulty because the practitioner is paid according o the size of the crowd he collccls, and :>•(. |h*> lalicut mnv s od to another la|) if lie encounters an.v stiffness or iijupo iliun.’’- “I he Lance I '.”